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Yup. And on average guys with 6'5 length have lower passing compared to other skills and a bigger elastic effect. If you look at the transferlist at guys with 15+ passing there are way more players close to 6'1 than 6'5 (to show that shorter players on average have higher passing and a lower/negative elastic effect).

There's also the factor that players who are not the typical height for a PG are less likely to be trained to higher levels in passing and more likely to have more of their training in other skills, which would mean a higher likelihood of cross-training giving some sublevels in passing. Players who are trained for several consecutive pops in passing will of course be more likely to reveal a truer estimate of the time to gain a full level, while those who are trained intermittently may well have trained at a lower rate but appear to be faster thanks to the CT.

with regards to off-site data, - i think it very much depends on how you split the data. I can take all age range data for 6'0 height and get 0.48 vs 0.52 splits for 6'0 vs 6'5 - so i think it very much depends on this split (and hence where my 6'0 6'5 comment came from). I split it several other ways and got different results again. Stats lie 101% of the time.

Im always VERY skeptical of the offsite data as well and when i first saw the passing speed analysis i was like nahhhhhhhh thats crapola, seems really stupid.
But I can only base off my own personal experiences in training 6'1 PG in passing for a few seasons, vs my now 7'2 and 7'5 guys in passing. and from experiencing it first hand, i do find it to be true with regards to height and passing.

You both make some good points. And indeed Handling has more effect on Passing than other skills according to the off-site data blog. But I think I remember a news post where they said they would link the other skills more as well.

Anyway, as I said I might very well be wrong. So I was thinking of taking another look at the data. You are right that it can be split in many different ways so I hope you believe me that in my last post I only split it 1 way and am not fishing for good results. Als this time the data I gathered was only from 1 split and feel free to change the parameters and look up the data for those.

But I was still wondering. If height is actually the main effect we should see a pretty similar effect of it across the ages. In other words, tall 18 yr olds should have the same height advantage as 24 yr old. But if the height advantage is much much bigger for older players something else than height might be the factor (OR there might be a second factor besides height of course, like the one Hrudey proposes f.e.).

I checked data for every age from 18 to 25 for 2 groups, 5'9-6'3 and 6'7-7'6 (randomly picked...I swear).


18/19/20/21/22/23/24/25 yr old

5'9-6'3

.64/.58/.56/.51/.45/.4/.33/.27 (skill increase for respective ages)

6'7-7'6

.61/.6/.56/.52/.49/.51/.44/.38 (skill increase for respective ages)

Differences:

-3/+2/0/+1/+4/+11/+11/+11

(if we plot it this is definitely not horizontal)

It does not discount your personal experience, which is very valuable as well since you actually know all their variables. But this makes me wonder if the graph on the offsite wouldn't have shown an effect for height if only 18-22 yr olds would have been used. And I wonder why that is if height actually has a significant main effect.

Last edited by Tesse at 12/30/2014 6:53:22 PM

With his length and age. Just sell him.
I have tried before a guy like this to get secondaries on him. It took forever just to get a few pops on OD.
Driving will be pretty quick, passing also. But training his OD will kill you.
To get everything to at least up to 4 as some suggested here, will cost you 2 seasons at least. Training out of position will cost many games. Training on his own positions will just go to slow.

So my kind advice, sell him and start over with a better prospect.

the main data anomaly with the offsite data is the number of data submissions.
The number of whom have submitted data for tall players (ie: above 7Ft) accounts for about 3% of all data submissions for passing.

Whereas the number of submissions for players under 6'5 accounts for a very large portion - over 60% or thereabouts.

I guess this just highlights why I always a bit sceptical of the numbers from the offsite data. Even the trainer level data is very suss, but that's another discussion altogether!
Unfortunately I don't have statistical data for my personal experiences with big man passing training - I am actually due to do some next season, so ill refresh my memory again with that.

Looking at your differences there, its very small differences - it could be that in actual fact, passing training gets no influence from height at all, and the only differences that people see are from perceived speed differences.

So I think we are basically saying the same thing - data is dodgy or hard to interpret, therefore definitive conclusions are impossible to make.

So I think we are basically saying the same thing - data is dodgy or hard to interpret, therefore definitive conclusions are impossible to make.

I can wholeheartedly agree with that, and therefor your personal experiences are pretty valuable. Unfortunately my trainees differ in age too much so it's hard to compare their speed.